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"The accord answers a yearn-
ing for reconciliation between the
peoples of the Book," he said. "It
encourages the hope that a his-
tory of persecution, misunder-
standing, bigotry and fear can
be transcended."
Sunday's event was sponsored
by the Archdiocese of Detroit and
Shaarey Zedek, in cooperation
with other Jewish, Christian and
interfaith groups in metro
Detroit.
The accord is not the first to
address relations between Catho-
lics and Jews.
In 1965, Pope Paul VI issued

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the Second Vatican Council,
which denounced anti-Semitism,
rejected the Christian charge of
deicide against Jews, and recog-
nized Catholicism's roots in
Judaism.
The Second Vatican Council
did not, however, make any men-
tion of the State of Israel.
The new Vatican-Israel accord
not only recognizes Israel, but
also opens a forum for more can-
did discussion between the two
religions, said keynote speaker
Dr. Eugene Fisher, associate di-
rector for Catholic-Jewish rela-
tions in the National Conference
of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat
for Ecumenical and Inten'eligious
Affairs.
Dr. Fisher, a native Detroiter,
said communication should
not be stymied by embarrass-
ment and concern over religious
differences and past wrongs,
and members of both faiths
should strive to develop a mu-
tual understanding and "joint
memory."
"With this (Vatican-Israel)
agreement, a fundamental sym-
bolic blockage between our two
peoples has been removed. With
this removal, though, we need
to revisit the way each of us has
told the history of our relation-
ship, because it seems to me that
Christian and Jews have told
their histories of the past two mil-
lennia independently of each oth-
er, and I don't think we validly
can," he said.
Dr. Fisher pointed out that

during his first 25 years of reli-
gious education, he did not learn
much about the Catholic
Church's expulsion ofJews from ,/
Spain in the 15th century. "This
was not part of the Catholic
memory," he said. On the other
hand, he said, Jews often remain
unaware of papal states near
Rome that gave Jews refuge dur-
ing that time.
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Dr. Fisher stressed that Jews
and Catholics in the United
States are especially well-
equipped to look at shared expe-
riences.
"The history of American
Catholics and Jews is a his-
tory of joint immigration,
quite often in the same
boats, in the same steerage
class. We went through the
same Ellis Island. They
messed up all of our
names. We were kept out
of the same clubs in Detroit
and elsewhere ...
"In Detroit, if one looks
at the history of the labor
movement, one sees large-
ly a Catholic and Jewish di-
alogue in operation," he
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said.
Dr. Fisher and Chaim
Shacham, Israel's consul
for press and information
in the Midwest, discussed
the recent turmoil over an
award given by an arch-
bishop in Vienna to former Nazi
and past Austrian President
Kurt Waldheim.
Since the presentation of that
award in early July, Israel has
questioned the Vatican, but has

"A fundamental
symbolic blockage
has been removed."

— Dr. Eugene Fisher

not yet received a reply. Dr.
Fisher and Mr. Shacham said,
however, that the accord has pre-
pared a constructive forum for re-
solving this issue.
In his speech, Mr. Shacham
did not advocate forgetting
Catholic persecution ofJews in
centuries passed, but rather corn-
pared the situation to Israel's re-
lationship with Egypt in the
1970s.
"Until Egypt recognized
our right to exist, it was impos-
sible to begin negotiations," he
said.
"When, in 1977, we were fi-
nally able to begin peace talks,
and when, in 1979, we signed the
peace treaty with Egypt, it was
not because we had forgotten all
the lives that had perished on the
battlefields, but because we were
both committed to building a bet-
ter future for generations to
come." ❑

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